RIVER FALLS – Distilleries come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny mom and pop shops to industrial behemoths.

While Tattersall Distilling, which inhabits a former Shopko store in River Falls, near the Minnesota border, isn’t anywhere near the largest – that title would likely go to a Kentucky giant like Heaven Hill – it is surely among the biggest and most varied distilling facilities I’ve seen in the craft world.

Opened in late 2021, the nearly 80,000-square-foot building has a restaurant, a large events venue, pre-function areas, a spacious stillhouse, barrel storage, warehousing, three kitchens, meeting and event rooms (including an evocative “barrel room”), bride and groom rooms, a classroom for cocktail classes, multiple large outdoor patios, a shop, staff dining room and locker room, and offices, as well as the kind of parking lot you’d expect at a former department store.